Game apparatus.



I. F. GRENFELL.

Y GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED 11313.3.19134 l, l 21 ,089. Patented Dec. 15,1914.

y Tap i sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. GRENFELL, OF BEIAVEIRLMEADOVV;PIENNSYLVANIA.V

GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed February 3, 1913.

lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip- Y tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rlhis invention relates to a game ratus.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of an apparatus which willprove appaan eliicient aid inV conductingV advertising campaigns and particularly a campaign of advertising designed to introduce goods of a merchant among the patrons of certain specified amusements.

l/Vith the above and other objects in'view the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more Vfully Vdescribed and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

ln describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the device with the cover thereof in open position; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the removable drawer of the device with the ticket receiving receptacle removed therefrom; Fig. 5, a detail perspective view Vof one of the ticket receiving receptacles, and Fig. 6, a detail perspective view of one of the indicating card holders.

Referring tothe drawings the device is shown as comprising a box like body A which includes a front member 10, rear member 11, side members 12 and 13, a hinged cover 15 and a bottom 15. Suitably supported inthe body A, a slight distance Vbelow the upper edge of said body is a horizontal partition 16 provided with a plurality of ticket receiving slots 17. Sixteen of these slots are shown, eight on each side of the transverse axis of the body arranged in longitudinal alined pairs. The number of these slots 17 may be varied according to requirements, the device in this instance being Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15,1914.

Serial No. 745,979.

shown as adapted for use in connection with an advertising campaign among the patrons of the American and National Baseball Leagues of the United States. Secured to the horizontal partition 16 at the rearof each pair of longitudinally alined slots 17 is an indicating card holder B which comsecuringflanges 19 through which suitable fastening devices are adapted to be passed so as to rigidly connect the holder with the horizontal partitions 16. The holder B fur-V ther includes curved guide flanges 2O between which cards 21 are adapted to be detachably inserted, said cardsrhaving the name of -'a desired baseball club imprinted thereon. Secured to the innerV sides of the rear Vmember 11 on opposite sides of the transverse axis ofthe body Aare cards 22 and 23 which have printed thereon the words American League and National League respectively. The eight cards 21V disposed forwardly of and in line with theV card 22 have printed thereon the names of the baseball clubs comprising the American League, while the eight cards 21 disposed forwardly of and in line with the card 23 have printed thereon'names of the baseball clubs comprising the National League.V

The front member 10 terminates short of the bottom 15 to form a drawer opening and removably inserted in this opening beneath the partition 16 is a drawer C. This drawer is provided on opposite sides of the transverse axis of the body A with cells 25 corresponding in number and position to the slots 17 so that when the drawer is inserted a respective cell 25 will be disposed beneath a respective slot 17. Removably inserted in inserted.

The manner of using the device is as follows. Duringthe baseball season'the merchant desiring to advertise his goods among prises a body 1S having laterally directed the patrons of a particular baseball league Y will have tickets printed with his advertisefV ment thereon as well as an invitation to the holder of the ticket to attempt to guess the number or runs and number of base hits that will Vbe made by any club in a particular Y league in a given specified time. These tickets are distributed among the patrons of the game with the inducement held out Y to them by statements onthe ticket or otherwise thatvthose guessing the correct Ynumber of runs and base hits made by any club in a particular league in the time specied will receive a certain quantity of the mer-V chants goods free.

the specified time has elapsed the drawer C is unlocked and removed as are likewise the receptacles 26. The tickets contained in these receptacles are then examined and checked and the winner of the contest announced and presented with the-goods designated on the tickets.

y If desired the contest maybe changed in various Ways, for instance the goods may be oered to the one guessing the club making the greatestnumber of runs andV base hits and the number of runs and base hits such club would make. Under such a stipulation on the part of the merchant if the Washing- 17 of the device which latter v l partition,

ton Baseball Club made the most runs and base hits the ticket, in the receptacle 26 beneath the slot 17 directly forward of kthe card 21 indicating Washington, which set forth the correct number of runs and base hits would be the winner of the goods offered by the merchant.

wWhat I claim is In a device ofthe class described the combination of a box like'body, a horizontal partition therein provided with ticket'recei-ving slots, an indicating card holder at the rear of each slot, a drawerA removably mounted in said body beneath the horizontal longitudinal and transverse'partitions in said drawer forming cells disposed beneath respective slots in thehori- Zontal partition, and a receptacle removably v mounted ineach cell. l.

In testimony whereof, 1 aiiix my-signa* ture, in the presence of two witnesses.

v JOHN F. GRENFELL.

Vitnesses H. A. EDWARDS,

JOHN FLOOD.

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